date at which such disallowance shall be publicly signified by the governor in Our said islands, cease, determine, and become utterly void and of none effect. XI. The governor shall have a negative voice in the making Governor's negative and passing of all such laws as aforesaid, and he may from voice. time to time, as he shall judge it necessary, prorogue or dis- Prorogation, solve the said general assembly. &c. of general assembly. XII. The governor shall keep and use the public seal of Our Public seal. said islands for sealing all things whatsoever that shall pass the said public seal. XIII. The governor, in Our name and on Our behalf, may make and execute, under the public seal of Our said islands, grants and dispositions of any lands which may be lawfully granted or disposed of by Us. Provided that every such grant or disposition be made in conformity either with some law in force in Our said islands or with some instructions addressed to the governor under Our sign manual and signet, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, or with some regulations in force in Our said islands. Land grants. XIV. The governor may constitute and appoint all such Governor empowered to judges, commissioners, justices of the peace, and other necessary appoint officers and ministers in Our said islands as may lawfully be judges and constituted or appointed by Us, all of whom, unless otherwise other officers. provided by law, shall hold their offices during Our pleasure. XV. When any crime has been committed within Our said Grant of islands, or for which the offender may be tried therein, the pardons. governor may, as he shall see occasion, in Our name and on Our behalf, grant a pardon to any accomplice in such crime who shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of the principal offender, or of any one of such offenders if more than one; and further, may grant to any offender convicted in any court or before any judge or other magistrate within Our said islands a pardon either free or subject to lawful conditions, or any remission of the sentence passed on any such offender, or any respite of the execution of such sentence for such period as the governor thinks fit, and may remit the payment of any fines, penalties, or forfeitures due or accrued to Us. Provided always, that the governor shall in no case, except when the offence has been of a political nature unaccompanied by any other grave crime, make it a condition of any pardon or remission of sentence that the offender shall be banished from or shall absent himself or be removed from Our said islands. And remission of fines. Political offences. Proviso: banishment from islands prohibited. XVI. The governor may, upon sufficient cause to him appear- Suspension ing, suspend from the exercise of his office any person holding of officers. any office within Our said islands, whether appointed by any commission or warrant from Us or in Our name or by any other mode of appointment. Every such suspension shall continue 18042 3 D Succession to Lieutenantgovernor. to:. Senior military officer. and have effect only until Our pleasure therein shall be signified to the governor. In proceeding to any such suspension the governor is strictly to observe the directions in that behalf given to him by any instructions as aforesaid. XVII. Whenever the office of governor is vacant, or if the government. governor become incapable, or be absent from Our said islands, our lieutenant-governor of Our said islands, or if there shall be no such officer therein then such person or persons as We may Administra- appoint under Our sign manual and signet, and in default of any such appointment the senior officer for the time being in command of Our regular troops in Our said islands, shall during Our pleasure administer the government of Our said islands, first taking the oaths herein-before directed to be taken by the governor and in the manner herein prescribed; which being administering done, We do hereby authorise, empower, and command Our lieutenant-governor, or any other such administrator as aforesaid, to do and execute, during Our pleasure, all things that belong to the office of governor and commander-in-chief, according to the tenor of these Our letters patent, and according to Our instructions as aforesaid and the laws of Our said islands. Proviso: Lieutenantgovernor, &c.. to take oaths of office before' government. Powers, &c. of administra tor. Officers and and assist XVIII. And We do hereby require and command all Our others to obey officers and ministers, civil and military, and all other the inhabitants of Our said islands, to be obedient, aiding, and assisting unto the governor and to any person for the time being administering the government of Our said islands. governor. Term "governor explained. Power reserved to Her Majesty XIX. In these Our letters patent the term "the governor' shall include every person for the time being administering the government of Our said islands. XX. And We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and to revoke, alter, successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these Our letters patent as to Us or them shall seem meet. or amend present letters patent. Publication of letters patent. XXI. And We do further direct and enjoin that these Our letters patent shall be read and proclaimed at such place or places within Our said islands as the governor shall think fit. In witness whereof We have caused these Our letters to be made patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the nineteenth day of January, in the fifty-first year of Our reign. By warrant under the Queen's sign manual. Muir Mackenzie. * Provision was made by Letters Patent, dated January 20. 1891, printed below, for the appointment of a deputy to act for the governor during his temporary absence from the islands. LETTERS PATENT, DATED JANUARY 20, 1891, PASSED UNDER Victoria, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India: To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas We are minded to make further provision for the administration of the government of Our Bermudas or Somers Islands during the temporary absence therefrom of Our governor and commander-in-chief for the time being of Our said islands: Now therefore We do hereby ordain and declare Our will and pleasure as follows: may appoint a deputy to act during his temporary absence. I. In the event of Our said governor having received per- Governor mission from Us, or through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, to be temporarily absent from Our said islands, he may, by an instrument under the public seal of Our said islands, appoint any person to be his deputy, and in that capacity to exercise, during such absence or until Our pleasure be signified through one of Our Principal Secretaries of State, such of the powers vested in the governor as the governor shall think fit to assign to him. And if any such deputy shall have been duly appointed it shall not be necessary during his continuance in office, notwithstanding anything contained in Our letters patent bearing date at Westminster the nineteenth day of January, 1888,* constituting the office of governor and commander-inchief of Our said islands, for any person to assume the government of Our said islands as administrator thereof. II. And We do hereby reserve to Ourselves, Our heirs and Power reserved successors, full power and authority from time to time to revoke, alter, or amend these Our letters patent as to Us or them shall seem meet. III. And We do further direct and enjoin that these Our letters patent shall be read and proclaimed at such place or places as Our said governor shall think fit within Our said islands. In witness whereof We have caused these Our letters to be made patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the twentieth day of January, in the fifty-fourth year of Our reign. By warrant under the Queen's sign manual. to Her Majesty to revoke, alter, or amend present letters patent. Publication of letters patent. Muir Mackenzie. * Printed at p..1, above. 18042 3D 2 (St. R. & O. Revised to December 31, 1903.) ORDER IN COUNCIL RECONSTITUTING THE BISHOPRIC OF BRISTOL AS A SEPARATE BISHOPRIC. · 1897. No. 587. At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of July, 1897. The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas in pursuance of the Bishoprics Act, 1878* (Section four); the Bishopric of Bristol Act, 1884,† the Bishopric of Bristol Amendment Act, 1894; the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England on the 20th day of May 1897 certified to Her Majesty under their Common Seal that the annual value of the Bristol Bishopric Endowment Fund, together with the annual sum which will ultimately be derived in pursuance of the herein before mentioned Acts from the endowment of income of the contributory Bishopric of Gloucester, is (when calculated in the manner mentioned in the Bishoprics Act, 1878) not less than Three thousand five hundred pounds a year. Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above mentioned Acts and of the Bishopric of Bristol Amendment Act, 1896,§ Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council, to order and declare as follows: (1) The Bishopric of Bristol is hereby re-constituted as a (2) The diocese of the said Bishopric shall consist of- |